impressibility

A moderate degree of impressibility which is almost universal in the South, belongs to more than half in the North.

Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 1856

What a cause for rejoicing would it be then, if the proper degree of 'impressibility' were general with those who have failing and recreant teeth, that the dentist and his magnetiser might be one and indivisible?

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 Various 1840

Born in London of a French mother, by a German father, but reared entirely in England and in France, there is, in his fury, a combination of French suddenness and impressibility with our more slowly demonstrative Anglo-Saxon way when we get, as we say, “our blood up”, that produces an intensely fiery result.

Miscellaneous Papers 2007

I have an affection for the road yet (though it is not so pleasant a road as it was then), formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope.

Great Expectations 2007

Be this as it may, when one has enjoyed for a certain length of time a plentitude of life a time comes when he can enjoy nothing; his impressibility gradually decreases, and the effects on each of his senses are badly arranged.

The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. 2004

The writer was very intimately associated with him in some amateur plays; and day after day, and night after night, there were the same unquenchable freshness, enthusiasm, and impressibility in him, though broken in health, even then.

Contributions to All the Year Round 2004

In parting with the little occupations and relics that reminded her of Hartright, she seems to have parted with all her tenderness and all her impressibility.

The Woman in White 2003

Henrietta thought her blooming, easy-voiced bachelor, with his impressibility to feminine merit and his splendid range of suggestion, a very agreeable man, and she valued the opportunity he offered her.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

Lincoln shared the impressibility of the community in which he grew up; no more, no less.

The Life of Abraham Lincoln Henry Ketcham

First, there is in this temperament a certain pliability and impressibility, as compared with the rest of the Anglo-Saxon race; it shows a finer grain and a nicer touch.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various